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ῥύαξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥύαξ ῥύακος

Structure: ῥυακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/w

Sense

  1. a rushing stream, a torrent, a stream of lava

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • λέγεται γοῦν ἐν Σικελίᾳ εἰ γὰρ καὶ μυθωδέστερόν ἐστιν, ἀλλ’ ἁρμόσει καὶ ὑμῖν ἅπασι τοῖσ νεωτέροισ ἀκοῦσαι ἐκ τῆσ Αἴτνησ ῥύακα πυρὸσ γενέσθαι· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 128:1)
  • Τετάρτῃ δ’ ἡμέρᾳ μόλισ ἐπὶ τὴν ἄνυδρον γῆν ἀφίκοντο, ἣν ῥύακα πυρὸσ λέγουσι, ποτὲ μέχρι θαλάσσησ κατιοῦσαν, ἐπικλύσαι καὶ σβέσαι τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ νάματα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 12 6:1)
  • ἐγένοντο δὲ καὶ βρόμοι τῆσ Αἴτνησ σκληροὶ καὶ μυκήματα μακρὰ καὶ σέλα περιλάμποντα τὴν στρατιάν, ὥστε τοὺσ μὲν Γερμανοὺσ ἐξ εὐνίων ἀναπηδᾶν ὑπὸ δέουσ, τοὺσ δέ, ἀκοῇ τῶν περὶ τῆσ Αἴτνησ λεγομένων, οὐκ ἀπιστεῖν ἐν τοσοῖσδε παραδόξοισ ἐμπεσεῖσθαι σφίσι καὶ τὸν ῥύακα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 12 9:4)
  • καὶ ‐ οὐ γὰρ κατετίθεντο οὐδ’ οὕτω τοὺσ γονέασ ‐ διχῇ σχισθῆναι λέγεται τὸν ῥύακα, καὶ αὐτούσ τε τοὺσ νεανίσκουσ, σὺν δὲ αὐτοῖσ τοὺσ γονέασ τὸ πῦρ οὐδέν σφισι λυμηνάμενον παρεξῆλθεν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 28 8:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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